David Powell’s Puppet Pyrotechnics, Chester 1772 tells of the explosion which killed 23 people at a puppet show, and the subsequent sermon on the vile nature of puppetry! In the same vein, Robert Fowler’s Fireworks, Puppets, and Jacks of All Trades tells of another fatal explosion when puppeteers Lawrence & Son were making fireworks and reflects on the use of fire in performance. Festival reviews include the Seattle PoA Festival by Glyn Edwards, the Prague Festival of Marionette Arts for Children, and Puppets at the City of London Festival by Peter Charlton. In Stringed Actors of Rajasthan in the 1990s Janet Macallister describes puppets and shows seen during her visit to India, and Penny Francis reports on UNIMA activity in Brazil and Croatia. John McCormick provides a review of Henryk Jurkowski’s History of the European Puppet Theatre – the 20th Century.

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